Storytelling Science at Global Film Festival

Aims

There have been great scientists that dropped out of school, but there have been no great scientists that did not tell stories!
We seek to challenge, inspire and train scientists to use narrative techniques and strategies employed in film to produce persuasive presentations and publications. Borrowing communication strategies and techniques from filmmakers and applying them in science communication will help scientists for better communication of their research, and scientists are wise enough to do so!

Content

I. Theory:
• Scientists learn storytelling and storyboarding from the masters of narrative, ‘the filmmakers’.
• Scientists learn how to borrow communication strategies and techniques from filmmakers and how to apply them in communicating their science. This will help them to engage audience and increase uptake by incorporating narrative attributes into their teaching, divulgations and publications.

II. Practice:
• Scientists re-write their biographies, abstracts and presentations by using narrative attributes used by filmmakers
• Scientists could (not mandatory) attend the Global Science Film Festival (9th and 10th November in Stadtkino Cinema, Basel). Which is a great opportunity for them to meet professional filmmakers and discuss with them storytelling technics that they can use in communicating their research
• Eventually, scientists can prepare films about their interviews with the filmmakers

Target Group

All Doctoral Candidates & Postdocs

About the Trainer

Samer Angelone
Angelone is a filmmaker and scientist. He is the founder of the Global Science Film Festival, and works as a jury-member for prestigious international film festivals. Angelone has directed several fiction and documentary films. He teaches 'Filmmaking for Scientists', 'Storytelling & Storyboarding Science', and 'Video-journalism for Scientists' at different universities, research institutes and film festivals.
Angelone holds two PhDs in Film Studies and Biology

To know more about my research and films, please see:
Science: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samer_Angelone
Film: https://vimeo.com/samerangelone

Workload

Total of 10h (course attendance 8h, preparatory tasks 2h)

Participants have the option of visiting the Global Science Film Festival (9th and 10th November in Stadtkino Cinema, Basel) for free, to watch the films and interview the filmmakers.

Feature

Participants have the option of visiting the Global Science Film Festival (9th and 10th November in Stadtkino Cinema, Basel) for free, to watch the films and interview the filmmakers.

Once registration is open, applications will be collected for 24 hours and course places allocated by lot. All registrations received after the initial 24h period will be put on a waiting list and assigned on a first come, first served basis.

Course places/places on the waiting list will be confirmed by e-mail. Course registrations can only be canceled before the registration period ends (send an e-mail to grace@unibas.ch). Full course attendance is mandatory. Participants who fail to attend a course without prior notification or withdraw after the registration deadline are subject to a fee of CHF 30. In addition, participants who cancel their course registration at a later point in time, are absent without an excuse or do not attend the entire course will, for reasons of fairness, not be considered for course registration in the following semester and will be removed from other courses offered in the same semester. Please find the detailed regulations on the Transferable Skills Homepage.